|
Bill Walsh (producer)
William Crozier Walsh (September 30, 1913 – January 27, 1975) was a film producer, screenwriter and comics writer who primarily worked on live-action films for Walt Disney Productions. He was born in New York City. For his work on ''Mary Poppins'', he shared Academy Award nominations for Best Picture with Walt Disney, and for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium with Don DaGradi. He also wrote the ''Mickey Mouse'' comic strip for more than two decades. He died in Los Angeles and was interred in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. In 1970 an article in ''Variety'' listed him as the second most successful film producer of all time in terms of money-earning movies even though he was "a guy no one's ever heard of".WEST VIEW BY BURT PRELUTSKY: Superhack Los Angeles Times 20 Dec 1970: w6. Biography Early life Walsh was born in 1913 to immigrant parents in New York. He was raised in Cincinnati by his aunt and uncle, Agnes and William Newman. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Studio; it also operated under the names the Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before changing its name to the Walt Disney Company in 1986. Early on, the company established itself as a leader in the animation industry, with the creation of the widely popular character Mickey Mouse, who is the company's mascot, and the start of animated films. After becoming a major success by the early 1940s, the company started to diversify into live-action films, television, and theme parks in the 1950s. Following Walt's death in 1966, the company's profits began to decline, especially in the animation division. Once Disney's shareholders voted in Michael Eisner as the he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Fiction
Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, or disgust. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror, which is in the realm of speculative fiction. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". Horror intends to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the reader. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for larger fears of a society. Prevalent elements of the genre include ghosts, demons, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, the Devil, witches, monsters, extraterrestrials, dystopian and post-apocalyptic worlds, serial killers, cannibalism, cults, dark magic, satanism, the macabre, gore and torture. History Before 1000 The horror genre has ancient origins, with roots in folklore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corky And White Shadow
Corky means cork-like. It is an English and Irish unisex name that also serves as a nickname for Courtney. It may also refer to: People ;Sportspeople *Corky Ballas (born 1960), American competitive ballroom dancer *Corky or Corkie Blow (1877–1938), English footballer *Corky Calhoun (born 1950), American former National Basketball Association player *Corky Carroll (born 1947), American surfer *Dominic Cork (born 1971), English cricketer, nicknamed Corky * Corky de Graauw (born 1951), Dutch ice hockey player * Walter Devlin (1931–1995), American National Basketball Association player *Corky McMillin (1925–2005), American off-road desert racer and land developer *Corky Miller (born 1976), American Major League Baseball player *Corky Nelson (1939-2014), American high school and college football player and coach * Corky Palmer (born 1954), American college baseball coach * Corky Rogers (1943–2020), American high school football coach *Corky Valentine (1929–2005), American M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spin And Marty
''Spin and Marty'' is a series of television shorts that aired as part of ''The Mickey Mouse Club'' show of the mid-1950s, produced by Walt Disney and broadcast on the ABC network in the United States. There were three serials in all, set at the Triple R Ranch, a boys' western-style summer camp. The first series of 25 eleven-minute episodes, ''The Adventures of Spin and Marty'', was filmed in 1955. Its popularity led to two sequels — ''The Further Adventures of Spin and Marty'' in 1956 and ''The New Adventures of Spin and Marty'' in 1957. The serials were based on the 1942 novel ''Marty Markham'' by Lawrence Edward Watkin. The shows' success led to a reprinting of Watkin's novel in 1956 and the ''Spin and Marty'' comic books of the late 1950s. ''Spin and Marty'' aired as reruns on the Disney Channel until September 9, 2002. The first season's 25 episodes with bonus material were released on DVD by Disney in 2005. Premise and major characters The serialized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Littlest Outlaw
''The Littlest Outlaw'' is a 1955 drama film produced by Walt Disney. It was released by Buena Vista Distribution on December 22, 1955. It was directed by Roberto Gavaldón and written by Larry Lansburgh (story), and Bill Walsh (screenplay). It starred Pedro Armendáriz as Gen. Torres, Joseph Calleia as the Padre, and Andrés Velázquez as Pablito. Plot Little Pablito is the ten-year-old stepson of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican general's horse to jump for the grand race. The trainer's methods cause the horse to become afraid of jumping and the general orders the animal's death. Pablito runs away with the horse, becoming a fugitive. He travels throughout Mexico encountering several fugitives and a priest who tries to help. Cast *Pedro Armendáriz as Gen. Torres *Joseph Calleia as Padre *Rodolfo Acosta as Chato *Andrés Velázquez as Pablito *Laila Maley as Celita *Pepe Ortiz as Himself * Gilberto González as Tiger *José Torvay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mickey Mouse Club
''The Mickey Mouse Club'' is an American variety television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996 and returned to social media in 2017. Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Productions, the program was first televised for four seasons, from 1955 to 1959, by ABC. This original run featured a regular, but ever-changing cast of mostly teen performers. ABC broadcast reruns weekday afternoons during the 1958–1959 season, airing right after '' American Bandstand''. The show was revived three times after its initial 1955–1959 run on ABC, first from 1977 to 1979 for first-run syndication as ''The New Mickey Mouse Club'', then from 1989 to 1996 as ''The All-New Mickey Mouse Club'' (also known to fans as ''MMC'' from 1993 to 1996) airing exclusively on cable television's The Disney Channel, and again in 2017 with the moniker ''Club Mickey Mouse'' airing exclusively on internet social media. It ended in 2018. The character of Mickey Mouse appeared in every sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davy Crockett (miniseries)
''Davy Crockett'' was a five-part serial which aired on ABC from 1954–1955 in one-hour episodes, on the ''Disneyland'' series. The series starred Fess Parker as real-life frontiersman Davy Crockett and Buddy Ebsen as his friend, George Russel. The first three and last two episodes were respectively edited into the theatrical films ''Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier'' (released in 1955) and ''Davy Crockett and the River Pirates'' (1956). This series and film are known for the catchy theme song, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett". Episodes Walt Disney produced weekly one-hour television programs for ABC as part of a deal that allowed him to build the Disneyland theme park. Disney wished to highlight historical figures, and his company developed three episodes on Crockett – "Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter", "Davy Crockett Goes to Congress", and "Davy Crockett at the Alamo", broadcast December 1954–February 1955. They were shot on color film at the Great Smoky Mountains N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Hour In Wonderland
''One Hour in Wonderland'' is a 1950 television special made by Walt Disney Productions. It was first seen on Christmas Day, 1950, over NBC (4–5 pm in all time zones) for Coca-Cola, and was Walt Disney's first television production. It featured Disney as host, with Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy (who appeared on radio for Coke), and other celebrities who worked with Disney, including the Firehouse Five Plus Two jazz band. This special was actually a promotional program for Disney's upcoming theatrical feature, ''Alice in Wonderland''. Kathryn Beaumont, who voiced Alice, was dressed like her for this television special. This television special was included as a bonus feature on the Masterpiece and Un-Anniversary DVD editions of ''Alice in Wonderland'', as well as the 2011 Blu-ray release and the Exclusive Archive Collection laserdisc box set release. Synopsis Edgar Bergen informs Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd that Walt Disney has invited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uncle Remus And His Tales Of Br'er Rabbit
''Uncle Remus and His Tales of Br'er Rabbit'' is an American Disney comic strip that ran on Sundays from October 14, 1945, to December 31, 1972. It first appeared as a topper strip for the ''Mickey Mouse'' Sunday page, but after the first few years, almost always appeared on its own. The strip replaced the 1932-1945 ''Silly Symphony'' strip, which had spent its final year on gag strips featuring Panchito from ''The Three Caballeros''. The ''Uncle Remus'' strip began as a "preview" of the Walt Disney Productions film ''Song of the South'', which premiered a year later, on November 12, 1946. Disney had previously released comic strip adaptations of its animated feature films as part of the ''Silly Symphony'' Sunday strip, starting with ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' (1937–38), and continuing with ''Pinocchio'' (1939–40) and ''Bambi'' (1942). While those strips each ran for four to five months, and only told the story of the film, the ''Uncle Remus'' strip continued for al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silly Symphony (comic Strip)
''Silly Symphony'', initially titled ''Silly Symphonies'', is a weekly Disney comic strip that debuted on January 10, 1932 as a topper for the ''Mickey Mouse'' strip's Sunday page. The strip featured adaptations of Walt Disney's popular short film series, ''Silly Symphony'', which released 75 cartoons from 1929 to 1939, as well as other cartoons and animated films. The comic strip outlived its parent series by six years, ending on October 7, 1945. ''Silly Symphony'' initially related the adventures of Bucky Bug, the first Disney character to originate in the comics. It went on to print loose adaptations of ''Silly Symphony'' shorts, often using the characters and setting of the original shorts, but adding new plotlines and incidents. Later, it went on to print adaptations of some of Disney's feature films, as well as periods of gag strips featuring Donald Duck and Pluto. By late 1935, the strip had become a standalone half-page, and was no longer strictly a topper for the ''Mick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panchito Pistoles
Panchito Pistoles is a cartoon anthropomorphic rooster created by Fred Moore. He first appeared in the 1944 Disney film ''The Three Caballeros'' with his friends Donald Duck and José Carioca. He later appeared in several Disney comics, including a year-long run in the ''Silly Symphony'' Sunday comic strip (1944–1945) as well as Don Rosa's comic book stories ''The Three Caballeros Ride Again'' (2000) and ''The Magnificent Seven (Minus 4) Caballeros'' (2005). He speaks Spanish with a Mexican accent. Description Panchito is a friend of Donald Duck and José Carioca. He lives in Mexico and rides on a horse called Señor Martinez. He had some appearances in ''Disney's House of Mouse'' and in ''Minnie's Bow-Toons'' as a MC for a Mexican Fiesta. His first appearance in comics was a self-titled 1943 story in which he met and fell for Clara Cluck. A few months earlier he appeared in a text story titled "La Piñata". From 1944, Panchito headlined a year-long sequence in the ''Silly Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Williams (artist)
Roy Williams (July 30, 1907 – November 7, 1976) was an artist and entertainer for The Walt Disney Studios, best known as "Big Roy," the adult mouseketeer for four seasons on the ''Mickey Mouse Club'' television series and for his invention of the Mickey Mouse hats. Early life and career Williams was born in Colville, Washington and raised in Los Angeles, where he attended Fremont High School. After graduating, he was hired as an artist by Walt Disney in 1930. He worked on animated shorts while attending Chouinard Art Institute at night. He later also developed story ideas for Disney. He also designed over 100 insignias for the U.S. armed forces during World War II, and is credited with designing the mouse ears worn on the ''Mickey Mouse Club'' which would later be sold at Disney Parks. Williams also produced one-panel gag cartoons for ''The New Yorker'', '' Saturday Evening Post'', and other magazines. Disney director Jack Kinney described Williams as a "big fat balding hot-he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
